We express the signature of an alternating link in terms of some combinatorial characteristics of its diagram.
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Paweł Traczyk. A combinatorial formula for the signature of alternating diagrams. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Tome 184 (2004) pp. 311-316. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-fm184-0-17/